Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After 10 years of churning out Ani DiFranco projects, Righteous Babe Records has ventured into new territory with noise-pop pioneer Arto Lindsay's new album Prize. Lindsay uses a combination of machine-generated and natural, organic instruments to lay down a complex texture for his subtle poetry...
What Maes predicts, you had better believe. After all, she was the pioneer of the earliest shopping-bot technology known as collaborative filtering, which became popularized as Amazon's ubiquitous "people who liked this product also bought X" link. Now she's helping to bring us an e-commerce world based on the Priceline.com model--in other words, every seller will act like an airline with constantly changing pricing and the ability to negotiate. It's auto haggling...
Laser technology is changing so fast that even veterans of the field can hardly keep up. When he developed the first argon lasers back in the 1970s, says cosmetic-laser pioneer Dr. Richard Fitzpatrick, "we had one laser for everything. Now I have 25 lasers." Soon, he predicts, lasers will reach beneath the skin without causing any surface wound at all, to rejuvenate the skin's structure and reverse sun damage. In five years we may even have home lasers for facials. Fitzpatrick's partner, cosmetic-laser surgeon Mitch Goldman, predicts that in 10 years, you'll be able...
...husband Gustave, a cable television pioneer who helped develop the Nickelodeon channel aand pay-per-view technology, gave 14.5 million to the Harvard Law School, where they met, $10 million to establish the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, and $5 million to the women's matching fund...
...know a debenture from a dividend, but who do understand carbon-dioxide emissions or child-labor scams. Thus, when the London office of KPMG recently formed its new Sustainability Advisory Services (SAS), it hired the core personnel en masse from the Body Shop, the British cosmetics firm that helped pioneer the practice of corporate social and environmental accountability...